7 Queen St N + 354 King St W | 77.2 & 41.7 m | 12 & 25 fl | Under Construction - Page 33

Innsertnamehere · #**641** Posted **Jul 26, 2023, 6:46 PM**

@Ritsma delivers the sod... and I'm sobbing. Who in the world approved this? It'll be trampled over in a few weeks.

ScreamingViking · #**642** Posted **Jul 26, 2023, 7:19 PM**

Needs patio.

akiraredacted · #**643** Posted **Jul 26, 2023, 9:02 PM**

I'll just place my own bloody trees and rocks there. Tactical urbanism right?

matt602 · #**644** Posted **Jul 26, 2023, 9:03 PM**

Absolutely terrible use of such an important corner downtown. I honestly think this is one of the worst Vranich projects yet, and thats saying a lot.

TheRitsman · #**645** Posted **Jul 26, 2023, 9:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by matt602

Absolutely terrible use of such an important corner downtown. I honestly think this is one of the worst Vranich projects yet, and thats saying a lot.

I'm honestly trying to think of a worse project in the entire city... We need hotels, but come on. This is just hideous.

Innsertnamehere · #**646** Posted **Jul 27, 2023, 12:22 AM**

I mean yea - I’m excited to finally have a second non-extended stay hotel downtown, but man.

I’d still love to see a true 4 star hotel open up downtown. Hamilton finally has one in the wider region with the Pearle hotel in Burlington opening.. but one downtown would be even better. I guess I should just be happy that there is finally going to be a regular old 3-star property that isn’t 50 years old and showing it’s age.

Chronamut · #**647** Posted **Jul 27, 2023, 4:06 AM**

..are they seriously gonna leave those parts exposed concrete..?

King&James · #**648** Posted **Jul 27, 2023, 11:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chronamut

..are they seriously gonna leave those parts exposed concrete..?

They are meant for tagging.

SFUVancouver · #**649** Posted **Jul 28, 2023, 3:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

@Ritsma delivers the sod... and I'm sobbing. Who in the world approved this? It'll be trampled over in a few weeks.

Are you kidding me? Just a sod corner? I am speechless. What kind of horseshit planning approvals process let this sail through? I genuinely cannot believe this was proposed for an important corner on a major street in one of the larger cities in the country and the City would say "good enough, approved".

mishap · #**650** Posted **Jul 28, 2023, 4:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by SFUVancouver

Are you kidding me? Just a sod corner? I am speechless. What kind of horseshit planning approvals process let this sail through? I genuinely cannot believe this was proposed for an important corner on a major street in one of the larger cities in the country and the City would say "good enough, approved".

I think that's from the LRT design. That corner has an allowance for a very wide turn arc. It's from the stage of planning where westbound traffic (including heavy truck traffic) was to use Cannon/ Queen/ King to bypass the LRT corridor through the core. Not as necessary given new truck routes and two-way plans, but probably still on the books. The developers probably can't do anything on that corner.
The extra space might be handy to help with turns and LRT/ bus connections when Queen St N is converted to two-way operation.

TheRitsman · #**651** Posted **Jul 28, 2023, 4:28 PM**

I doubt this curb cut will occur now that Queen is no longer a truck route

TheHonestMaple · #**652** Posted **Aug 19, 2023, 8:22 PM**

Forming is going up for the condo tower

SteelTown · #**653** Posted **Aug 19, 2023, 10:25 PM**

It looks like the hotel part is nearly complete and will be open for business next Friday, August 25th.

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https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/yhm...pton-hamilton/

We're accepting reservations for August 25, 2023 and beyond.

Innsertnamehere · #**654** Posted **Aug 20, 2023, 3:41 AM**

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Originally Posted by TheHonestMaple

Forming is going up for the condo tower

!!!

Tower #11 which is 15+ storeys under construction in downtown if that’s the case. Crazy.

spaghettisam · #**655** Posted **Aug 20, 2023, 3:15 PM**

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!!!

Tower #11 which is 15+ storeys under construction in downtown if that’s the case. Crazy.

Good to hear because this one has seemingly took forever. Is the hotel open yet? Or will it only b ready for the Grey Cup?

Innsertnamehere · #**656** Posted **Aug 20, 2023, 3:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by spaghettisam

Good to hear because this one has seemingly took forever. Is the hotel open yet? Or will it only b ready for the Grey Cup?

The post above mine literally says it opens on Friday.

Chronamut · #**657** Posted **Aug 20, 2023, 3:51 PM**

it seems odd that they are planting evergreens SO CLOSE to the building - are these types that grow more up vs out?

urban_planner · #**658** Posted **Aug 20, 2023, 5:32 PM**

Didn't get a photo but they appear to have begun putting up forms for the 25 story tower. If someone is in the area an can grab photos.

Hawrylyshyn · #**659** Posted **Aug 21, 2023, 6:53 PM**

In light of the rental tower starting construction again, let's bring up the renders:

TheRitsman · #**660** Posted **Aug 21, 2023, 7:12 PM**

At least in the renders they showed the copious amounts of spandrel panel.